Thanks for your minds - maybe some other members told their meanings or thoughts here.

Fairlady with SR20?? Aren´t their enough outside? I want a Fairlady because of the old school style, rareness and ... it is old enough (more further lines down)

If you want to build a rotary (or any engine) here in Germany you have to pass emissiontests which are very strict. You have to know the loophole of the emissionlaw --> Only vehicles built after 1969 have to pass the emissiontest!

And the acceptense of the car would evaluated by the built date ... So the car can scream as loud as possible as in the days of his first registration for example.A rotary-project could only possible with a old chassis or a very very very cool (but expensive) checker

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here in switzerland it would be really complicated and almost impossible to get the ol' fairlady registered street legal with a rotary engine in i believe

Yeah, some poeple think germany has the hardest car law.. but in switzerland you can´t get a STOCK Supra wing on your Supra MK4

Well that's not really true, if a part has been homologated it's legal, problem is only a lot of these "experts" don't know what has been homologated, so many people just think if they say "no" it is not legal. but if you can show them they're wrong (and that's quite easy if you're into cars) than that's no problem at all..You just have to understand how it works then it's easy.Took me 3 years of hard work and hard earned money to get my EK9 from japan street legal here, but now it's totally street legal, loud as hell (97dB at idle ), Sard racing catalytic convert and toda 4-2-1 header registered. no problem - if you know how to get the stuff done right. most people just are not willing to deal with those paragraphs

sorry for the long time some guys of you had to wait. BUT it is in!! ....my garage. And the 13B too, okay not definitely but you can get an imagination of how it should look like. I will have some spare time for this project in september so you all will get more pictures and information then. Maybe some small things in october too

Enjoy

with wooden enginebay

not much space at all

The neck at the bottom of the waterpump housing will be cut off and a new one should go straight to the front. Need this place for the turbo

And the best at last: The original drive shaft from 2.gen RX7 fits!! in lenght of course. Hope it will fit with the 1. gen RX7 rear end too

I want to do the technical/mechanical jobs first. Engine, drivetrain, suspension etc. Then drive for a while as a "ratsun" German police will love me

Yes, but the progress is very slow. Hope to make some big steps in september as I mentioned.I talked to Micheal from Spriso after I had a look at there fantastic builds on there website. I have to confess that the idea with the RX7 GSL-SE rear end is from him

1)Next step is to build a manifold by using the cheap ebay one. I want to bring the turbo more to the front, because of the missing space to the side.

2)When the turbo is on his place I have to build a frame or something else where I can fix the engine to the chassis

3)Then I want to start the rotary on the chassis to check which parts are needed and which not.

Today I got back the tail lights from a friend who dechromed them for me. He can chrome it too but without copper, so I have to solder the pits with a hard solder and polish them very perfectly to get a well done finish.

But it costs less than 1/10 of the price of a firm who do this. I will do the same with the front light covers.

All diecast parts I will blast with glass and polish them by my own too or paint them.

The last picture shows a broken bracket and a bit rusty one on the right side. little bit of blasting required

some days ago I joined a board of (lotus) Seven, HKT, Caterham,.... drivers. People with knowledge about building cars like this and get the OK from our german TÜV.

For the swap on the rear axle I want to use disc brakes. But I need to install a handbrake which is mechanical activated NOT by hydraulic. My first thought was a drum brake inside the disc. But the guys told my I can use other calipers which have a lever, who can activated direcly by the handbrakecable. I didn´t know them.